RED DEAD 2 ONLINE UPDATE ONE: More information concerning exactly what Take-Two Interactive's Strauss Zelnick said during the Take-Two earnings call has come to light overnight and it provides a little more clarity than the previous comments about the Red Dead Redemption 2online release date.

Here's precisely what the Take-Two CEO said during the Earnings Call on Red Dead Online: "It's way too early to talk about Red Dead Redemption 2 Online, it hasn't released yet.

"It will launch in public beta towards the end of the month and Rockstar will have a lot more to say about it. We're not making any current predictions."

Those predictions are related to the question put to Zelnick which was specifically about how he thought Red Dead 2 Online will compare to the release of GTA Online.

Red Dead Online is an evolution of the classic multiplayer experience in the original Red Dead Redemption, blending narrative with competitive and cooperative gameplay in fun new ways.

Using the gameplay of the upcoming Red Dead Redemption 2 as a foundation, Red Dead Online will be ready to be explored alone or with friends, and will also feature constant updates and adjustments to grow and evolve this experience for all players.

Speaking toIGNbefore Red Dead's release, Josh Needleman, Senior Producer at Rockstar San Diego, noted how the online mode for the game had learned a lot from GTA Online and would be using the previous title as a jumping off point for the new Western take on the multiplayer:

“One of the biggest differences between GTA and Red Dead universes is that you’re often speeding through or flying over a GTA world, whereas in Red Dead Redemption the change of pace elevates the intimacy of the overall experience.

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“Like the single-player game’s story of Arthur Morgan, we want people to settle into their online characters and feel like every activity makes sense for the character, the setting and the time. This should feel intimate and personal while still feeling fun and action-packed from moment to moment.

“We’ve tried to take the best elements and best content packs from Grand Theft Auto Online and use them for templates for what we are making here. We feel Grand Theft Auto Online really only found its feet creatively with Heists.

“That pack, along with After Hours, The Doomsday Heist, Gun Running and a few others represent the best of Grand Theft Auto Online, and provided the template for what we wanted to use here, (not in terms of content, obviously, but how they combined narrative, gameplay, modesandother content into a cohesive thematic whole) alongside all of the elements we liked from the old Red Dead Redemption multiplayer.”